NASA to announce plans to build nuclear reactor on the moon
https://www.the-express.com/news/space-news/179377/nasa-nuclear-reactor-moon-duffy
NASA to announce plans to build nuclear reactor on the moon
https://www.the-express.com/news/space-news/179377/nasa-nuclear-reactor-moon-duffy
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Secretary of Transportation [Sean Duffy](https://www.the-express.com/news/politics/162382/transport-secretary-sean-duffy-cockpit) is expected to announce expedited plans to build a nuclear reactor on the Moon in what a senior [NASA](https://www.the-express.com/news/space-news/174680/nasas-voyager-spacecraft-discovered-wall) official called a bid to “win the second space race.”
Can’t have universal healthcare, but sure.. A reactor on the moon, why the fuck not?
>The first country to have a reactor could “declare a keep-out zone which would significantly inhibit the United States,” the directive states, according to POLITICO
Ah. There’s the real reason.
With what budget? Can we send ICE to the moon since they’ve got billions to burn?
Very cool. I consider myself a Conservationalist but not an Environmentalist, and I’ve found lunar development to be a great way to distinguish between the two. I’ve encountered several people who think we should leave the lunar environment pristine, — for who, exactly? I don’t want our rivers polluted or our forest cut down to preserve human enjoyment, but the moon or Mars? Extract maximum value from them.
So many people are going to die for absolutely jack shit
Please don’t tell me some knuckle head watched For All Mankind and thought this was a good idea. Because that’s what it sounds like. 🤦♂️
I look around the world at the multiplying crises that threaten to overwhelm our future and I think, “if only the moon had nuclear power.”
“Watch for Hurricanes? Nah. Not like we’ll do anything about it anyway.”
America still has scientists? I figured they all left due to cuts in federal research funding, political interference, loss of intellectual freedom, and being poached by our rivals.
Create a “The Running Man” show on the moon. The contestants? Our wealthiest elites. That TV show would shatter records.
where are they going to find a cable long enough to bring all that sweet energy back?
With what budget? With what personnel? Since DOGE and the Big Bullshit Bill, I cannot believe this plan is an earnest goal. Instead, this seems more like a bombastic headline grabber to try to suck oxygen out of the ongoing Epstein-Trump dot-connecting everyone is FINALLY doing. Trump is a pedo. Release the unredacted files in full.
Putting a bunch of radioactive material in a rocket is an excellent idea, because rockets never blow u…… oh wait.
Nothing will ever go wrong, humans build things like nuclear reactors that are never going to cause the moon to explode or anything problems to worry about happening to our one and only Moon.
With the cut billions of dollars and 4000 employees who just left?
I was dismissive of the idea we’d go to the moon this decade, but hopeful it would happen by 2030-2031. Now the next flag planted on the moon by a human with be China’s.
Man if we’re gonna blow this much money can we at least get a Gundam
The real question is, are they going to train nuclear physicicst to be astronauts or take a bunch of astronauts and teach them nuclear physics?
My guess is they will just land an RTG and claim “mission acomplished”.
Sounds like the plot of a super villain
Where is Scorpio when we need him?
In all honesty, these idiots can barely walk and chew gum at the same time. Very low expectations.
Hmmm….with a nuclear reactor on the moon…well, isn’t there a precedent in science fiction for building in zero-G environments? Something about it being easier to launch space craft if it’s already in space?
Oh it’ll cost fuck loads of cash…but. If it enables us to explore the rest of the solar system/galaxy in the long run…eh fuck it, why not? 💪